All Virginia Woolf Quotes
- I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. Beautiful
- And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely. Beautiful
- Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed… All
- Oh, I am in love with life! Funny
- They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been… All
- It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals. Beings
- Tragedies come in the hungry hours. Hours
- But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing. Inspirational
- I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions. Admired
- Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. Book
- Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these – ‘Chloe liked Olivia…’ Do not start. Do not blush. Let… Admit
- If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us? Best
- Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame Alone
- Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. Apart
- ...But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful... Beautiful
- To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to… All
- There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living… Another Life
- And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath… Advancing
- I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky. Dissolve
- I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. Inspirational
- Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now… Al
- Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than… All
- Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea. Been
- Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast… Adventure
- Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every… Caring